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C Составьте вопросы претендентов.

4 A model interview

Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.

Candidate: I've just graduated from the University of Singapore with a degree in Computers. During the summers, I worked as a systems administrator for a small company to help pay for my education.

Interviewer: What type of position are you looking for? Candidate: I would like any position for which I qualify.

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Interviewer: Are you interested in a full-time or part-time position? Candidate: I am more interested in a full-time position. However, I would also consider a part-time position.

Interviewer: What is your greatest strength?

Candidate: I am a trouble shooter. When there was a problem at my last job, the manager would always ask me to solve it. Last summer, the LAN server at work crashed. The manager was desperate and called me in (requested my help) to get the LAN back online. After taking a look at the daily backup, I detected the problem and the LAN was up and running (working) within the hour.

Interviewer: What is your greatest weakness?

Candidate: I am overzealous (work too hard) and become nervous when my co-workers are not pulling their weight (doing their job). However, I am aware of this problem, and before I say anything to anyone, I ask myself why the colleague is having difficulties.

Interviewer: Why do you want to work for Smith and Sons?

Candidate: After following your firms progress for the last 3 years, I am convinced that Smith and Sons are becoming one of the market leaders and I would like to be part of the team.

Interviewer: When can you begin?

Candidate: As soon as you would like me to begin.

D Выберите роль и проведите собеседование.

Personnel Department managers (2– 3)

Look through CV forms of applicants and their applicant letters, be ready to ask questions and make notes (names, general impression, speech, appearances, answers). Offer applicant to put questions and be ready to answer applicants’ questions. You think the person (man or woman) should have some experience, be energetic, ambitious and enthusiastic.

Personnel Department top manager (1)

Look through CV forms of applicants and their applicant letters, be ready asking and answering questions. You are looking for a man aged 25-30, friendly and sociable, experience is of no importance – as you have your own training program.

Applicants (as many as you like)

Use any name and background, as many variants as possible. Write CV forms and applicant letters before the role play, be ready to answer and ask questions.

5 After the interview the managers choose the most suitable applicant. The decision is announced to the applicants.

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UNIT II

How to make career

3.1 Обсудите с партнером.

• What does a person need to make a successful career?

(great talent, good education, high qualification, good interpersonal skills, ability to work hard, persistence, money to invest, strong protection, something else)

3.2 Ответьте на следующий вопрос, пользуясь моделью и словами, данными ниже.

•What features (interpersonal qualities) do you need to do these jobs:

businessman, police officer, design engineer, driver, mechanic, body guard, professional sportsman, film producer, top manager, university professor?

Model:

3.3 Вам предстоит прочитать текст THE FIRM. Перед чтением обсудите в группе.

•Who is a workaholic?

•Have you ever work overtime? / Do you parents work overtime?

•Do you think working overtime helps to make a good career?

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THE FIRM

A partner of a law firm (Avery) is explaining to a newcomer (Mitch) the rules of work in the firm.

Avery: You will be expected to be in the office by nine each morning. The secretaries are to be there at eight-thirty. Nine to five, but no one works so.

Mitch: And what about you?

Avery: Personally I am in the office by eight, and seldom leave before six. I can bill twelve hours each day, regardless of how much hours I actually work. I work at three hundred an hour, for fifty weeks. Nine hundred thousand dollars in billable time! That is my goal.

The firm doesn’t care if you come in at 6 a.m. or 9 a.m. as long as the work is done.

Mitch: What time are the doors unlocked?

Avery: Everyone has a key, so you can come and go as you please. Security is tight, but the guards are accustomed to workaholics.

Mitch: I was told some stories about the work habits in the firm that seemed to me legendary.

Avery: Not a bit! They are real. Victor Milligan, in his younger days, worked sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, until he made partner. Then he quit working on Sundays. He had a heart attack and gave up Saturdays. His doctor put him on ten-hour day, five days a week, and he hasn’t been happy since.

Marty Kozinski is a man who wants to nave breakfast with the kids. He comes in at nine and leaves at midnight.

Nathan Locke claims he can’t work well after the secretaries arrive, so he comes in at six. It will be a disgrace to start later.

Here is a man sixty one years old, worth ten million, and works from six in the morning till eight at night five days a week and then a half day on Saturday. If he retired, he’d die.

Nobody punches a clock. Come and go as you please. Just get the work done.

Слова для запоминания

bill - отмечать(ся) в табеле, billable – табельный (о времени), regardless – независимо, без разницы, goal – цель, unlocked – открытый (ключом); tight –плотный, строгий; are accustomed – привычны; not a bit - ничуть, нисколько; quit working – оставил/прекратил работать; a disgrace – неловкость, стыд; worth –

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стоить, ценность; на отдых /на to punch a clock – отмечаться по часам; just get your work done – просто сделай свою работу

3.4Ответьте на вопросы:

1What time is Mitch expected to be at work?

2How long does Mitch’s working day last?

3What is Avery’s goal?

4Why does everyone in the firm has a key?

5Why isn’t Victor Milligan happy any more?

6Why do Marty Kozinski and Nathan Locke come to work at different time?

7What is the general motto (девиз) of the firm?

3.5 Используя лексику упр. 3.2, охарактеризуйте людей, о которых говорится в тексте “The firm”.

a)Avery is

b)Victor Milligan is

c)Marty Kozinsky is

d)Nathan Locke is

3.6Переведите.

1. Я работаю с восьми до шести. 2. Я прихожу и ухожу когда мне удобно. 3. Начальник отдела стоит сто тысяч в год. 4. Мой партнер работает десять часов в день, шесть дней в неделю. 5. После сердечного приступа президент компании бросил курить. 6. Мери привыкла завтракать с малышами. 7. Наш девиз «Просто сделай свою работу». 8. Я работаю за десять долларов в день. 9. Двери открывают в полвосьмого. 10. Главный бухгалтер на прошлой неделе уволился. 11. Служащие отмечаются по часам. 12. Директор и коммерческий директор не отмечаются по часам. 13. У каждого есть свой ключ. 14. Охрана здесь строгая. 15. Дед ушел на пенсию в шестьдесят лет. 16. В прошлом году я стал партнером и теперь работаю за три сотни в час.

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3.10 Совместите части предложений (1-7) и (a-g).

1How many people have mothers who work?

2Do they work part-time or full-time?

3Compare your country with Britain.

3.12 Вам предстоит прочитать текст THE CONCRETE CEILING. Перед чтением обсудите в группе.

•In Russia, is it easy for a woman to become a manager and to get to the top? Why? / Why not?

3.13 Прочитайте текст и объясните слова, выделенные жирным шрифтом.

THE CONCRETE CEILING

Why women face problems at work?

BECAUSE • women have babies.

•a woman is still judged on her looks.

•“woman’s brains are smaller”.

•women often start out as secretaries and good secretaries rarely get promoted.

•not enough women have the courage to speak out about inequality.

•men fear and distrust powerful women.

•no one thinks of calling the father when a child is ill.

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•a lot of men think of themselves as superior to women.

•some men just don’t listen to what women are saying.

•women think men won’t love them if they’re successful.

•women are either too tough or not tough enough.

•just because.

3.14Найдите в тексте предложения со сходным смыслом.

1When child has a problem, people refer to the mother first.

2If you are at the bottom of the company, you will probably stay at the bottom.

3To be successful women have to be pretty.

4Women with children don’t work so hard (according to men).

5women are either weak or aggressive.

3.15 Обсудите в группе.

•Explain the title of the article.

•Find examples of men’s attitude to the problem.

•What are the most important points in the text? Choose the top three and explain them in your own words.

3.16 Поставьте следующие предложение в страдательный залог и скажите, согласны ли вы с ними.

Model:

People don’t always respect women managers.

Women managers are not always respected.

1People expect women to do the housework.

2People judge women and men by different standards.

3Companies promote men much more quickly than women.

4Men fear and distrust powerful women.

5Companies often keep the best jobs for men.

6Teachers give more time to boys in the classroom.

3.17 Вам предстоит прочитать текст «WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? - I DON’T», SAYS CHARLES GREY. Перед чтением текста обсудите в группе:

•What are the advantages and disadvantages of the life of a millionaire?

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3.18 Прочитайте текст и скажите в чем вы согласны и в чем не согласны с Чарльзом Греем

«WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? - I DON’T», SAYS CHARLES GREY

More than fifteen years ago, Charles Grey was a college professor with a huge six-bedroom house and a fortune of $2 million. Today he lives in a small caravan where there is second-hand furniture. There are certainly no signs that Charles Grey was a rich man.

There is a small garden outside with a few fruit trees. Charles grows vegetables and flowers. He gets his clothes and a lot of other things from charity shops.

But this change is not a tragedy. Charles was happy to give up a lifestyle of the rich. He was tired of being a person who had everything in a world where many people had nothing. So he made a chance to give all his money away and this decision, he says, has brought him happiness.

“A few years ago’, says Mr.Green, ‘I made a great success and became a millionaire, but I knew there were hungry people in the world.” So Charles Gray gave away his money to charities. Two thousand dollars left in small bank notes he gave away in the streets of poor areas. Did he feel like Father Christmas? “It was a lot of fun”, says Charles.

Charles believes that most people want to be rich since they expect money give them power and happiness. However, a number of these people never make much money. Charles Grey tried both wealth and poverty and has realized that having only a little money makes you free and independent. Are there any things he is missing? “No, I’m much happier now. I wouldn’t come back to being rich, no way.”

Caravan - фургон; sign - признак; to give away - раздать; to miss -

скучать; no way – ни в коем случае.

3.19 Выполните краткий пересказ текста

as if you were Charles Grey

as if you were his former colleague

3.20 Разыграйте по ролям интервью с Чарльзом Греем.

Journalist: Where did you live when you were rich? Charles Grey:....................

Journ. : How do you live at present?

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Ch.G.:......................

Journ.: Why did you give up the lifestyle of a rich man?

Ch.G.:.............................

Journ.: Who did you give away you money to?

Ch.G.:..........................

Journ.: What did you feel while giving away your money in the

streets?

Ch.G.:.........................

Journ.: Why do most people want to earn a lot of money?

Ch.G.:............................

Journ.: Are there any things you are missing?

Ch.G.:.........................

3.21 Ответьте на вопросы психологического теста и выясните насколько вы успешны.

ARE YOU A SUCCESSFUL PERSON?

You’ve left your watch at home. You want to ask a stranger what time it is. What do you say?

a)What time is it?

b)Excuse me, what time is it?

c)Excuse me, I’m so absent-minded, I’ve left my watch at home. What time is it?

You go to buy your favorite magazine “Cool”. The shop assistant gives you “Murzilka” by mistake. What do you say?

a)You’ve made a mistake. I need “Cool”.

b)I think there is a mistake. Could you change this for me, please.

c)Excuse me, I’ve made a silly mistake. Will you be so kind to change this for me?

Your friend invites you to the theatre. You are busy writing a report. What do you say?

a)It’s out of the question. I’m busy.

b)I’m sorry, I can’t. I’m busy working. Try to invite Ann, she dreams of seeing this play.

c)Excuse me, I’m so sorry. Don’t be cross with me. I’ve spoiled your evening, may be next time...

You want to buy a ticket to Tomsk. What do you say to the clerk in the booking office?

a)One to Tomsk.

b)A single to Tomsk, please.

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